The New York Herald Newspaper, September 20, 1866, Page 6

6 NEW YORK HERALD.| aehnannet JAMES GORDON BENNETT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR OFFICE N. W. CORNER OF FULTON AND NASSAU STS. THE DAILY HERALD, published every day in the year, Four cents per copy. Annual subscription price, @14. THE WEEKLY HERALD, every Saturday, at Frve cents per copy. Annual subscription price:— Five Copies... - Ten Copies....++4++++++ phcacegeucel Rr caknsacey> 15 JOB PRINTING of every description, also Stereotyp- dng and Engraving, neatly and promptly executed at the coweat rates. Volume XML... cece cceeceeeeceeee ee! No. 363 =a AMUSEMENTS THIS EVENING. BROADWAY THEATRE, Broadway, near Broome street.—Romeo anp Jute. NEW YORK THEATRE, Broadway opposite New Yor Hotel—NavaL ExGacraunt—Bravrr anp Tux Bi had Lae Fourteenth street, near Sixth ave- nue.—Mep: GERMAN THALIA THEATRE, No, 514 Broadway.— Peun-Haxpne. GERMAN STADT THEATRE, Nos, 45 and 47 Bowery.— Oraeivo. TBRRACE GARDEN, Third avenue, between Fifty- eighth aud Fifty-uinth streets.—Tugo. 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NEW YORK MUSEUM OF ANATOMY, 618 Broadway.— Leoronss witt Tue Oxy-flyprogen Microacore twice wl, fd Rigut Aru or Propsr. Open from 8 SHEET. a ti THE NEWS. Our despatches by the Atlantic cable are dated to Tues- day evening, September 18. The manilesto of the French Emperor to the Eu- ropean Powers on the crisis, as rendered by the cable, is of an assuring, peaceful character. The changes re- sulting from the war are favorable to France. Prussia and Italy are drawn closer. The Roman Convention will be executed. The Baltic and Mediterranean are free. Austria is pacifiec—a perfect military organiza- tion must be maintained, notwithstanding. Napoleon will not permit French officers to hold office under Maximilian, in deference to the principle of the Monroe doctrine. ‘Tho Pruasian fleet off Kiel has been put out of com- mission. The Upper House of the Prussian Legislature has paased the new electoral law. The forts of the Quadrilateral are to be immediately transferred to Venetia. Austria makes a timely concession to the Hungarian exiles. The man who attempted to assassinate the Czar of Russia has been executed. Consols closed in London a* 89'{ for money on Taes- day, September 18. Five-twenties were quoted at 72% at the close the same day. To the Liverpool cotton market middling uplands closed at 18144. on the 16th inst., a slight advance, expe- rienced at noon, being lost before the close. Breadstuffs were generally unchanged. THE CITY. There wore eight new cases of cholera and three deaths from the same disease reported in this city yes- terday. Three now cases and four deaths from the dis- ase wore reported in Brooklya. Four fresh cases and one death from the disease were reported from the Quarantine. The President of the Board of Health, ac. companied by several goatiomen and members of the proas, visited the monster Abattoir at Cummunipaw yes- torday morning. ‘The Board of Education held its regular meeting yes- terday, An assistant teacher in the male department of Grammar School No. 5 was dismissed for infiicting cor- poreal punishment on pupils. An assistant superinten- dant of grammar schools was appointed for two years. Danie! Buckley, school trustee of the Fifth ward, was dvamiased. $56,644 was appropriated for repairs, &c., of Grammar School No, 20. $262 was appropriated for setiees for the female department of Grammar School No. 12 The Commissioners of Emigration mot yesterday, the President, Gulian ©. Verplanck, in the chair. Specifica- tions for the alterations to be made in tho buildings at Ward's Island were submitted and referred to the Com- mittee on Buildings. A communication was received from the master of the ship Marcia Greenleaf, asking for the remiasion of the fine of $75 inflicted by the Commis- loners for his omission of a passenger's name from his Passenger list. The Feast of the Atonement, the most important of the faa days in the Jewish calendar, was Observed univers- ally by the Hebrews yesterday. Mr. H. M. Stewart, a rospeciable merchant on Wash- ington street, has instituted proceedings for divorce against his wife, whom ho accuses of being too affection- ate toa Mr, Wm. C. Knecland, while her husband was stricken with typhoid fever. Mr. rart has also com- menced an action in the Supreme Court for crim. con., Placing the damages at $10,000. Thomas W. Kelly, a patrolman of the Metropolitan Police, was before the Police Commissioners yesterday, on a complaint made by John W. Campbell, a German Gittzon, who charges him with having enticed away his (tee platatiff's) wife from her home and children. From the evidence of Campbell it appears that Kelly boarded @t his house for a long time, when he became too inti- mate with his wife who had recently disappeared. Kolly denied kmowing her whereabouts. The case was adjourned until moon today, when the miasing wife will appear as a witness, An ioquest was held before Coroner Gover yesterday, on the body of Mrs. Phillippina Rausch, a victim to the isastor near the Desbrosees streot ferry, on last Sunday, when the forry boat D. 8. Gregory collided with the steamer George Washington. The amplest testimony was olicited, showing great culpability on the part of the pliot of the ferry boat. A verdict was rendered in ac- cordance with the facts, in which a consure on the pilot was embodied. ‘Two wooks since Judge Barnard granted an alternative Mandamus addressed to Street Commusioner Cornell, Girocting him to exhibit certain vouchers and records of hia department to Mr. Richard M. Henry, a citizen who had mado application therefor. A return to th; (mus was made yesterday by the Street Com: ‘who swears to « lengthy affidavit, setting forth that it ‘would be very injurious to the routine of business of bie Gepartment if he were to exhibit the records of his office to every cltison who desired to examine them, After hearing the argament of counsel Judge Barnard reserved his decision. The Phonix Bank defalcation has come up in our courts ina now shape. A suit has been commenced by the bank against the sureties of James Earle, the assist- eat teller, who was implicated with Jenkins in the defal- cation, and who committed suicide after being arrested. Mosere. Haat and Sayre, the defendants, were bondsmen Bertp in the sum of ype bomen, 4 wera ecpetila, ba Seasions sentence for a breach of the Health law, in keep- ing @ fat melting establishment, was again up before Judge Sutherland yesterday on s motion to admit the Prisoner to bail, a common law certiorari baving been previously granted. Judge Sutherland dilated at length upon bis legal powers in the premises, and ex- pressed the opinion that he had no authority to admit the prisoner to bail. He remarked that he would confer with his associate justices upon the point, and adjourned over the case until Friday next. The stock market was strong yesterday and prices ad- vanced. Gold closed at 14534. ‘There was a fair busineas io both foreign and domestic goods yesterday, and asa general thing full prices pre- vailed. On ’Change flour and wheat were quiet, but without decided change. Corn was }<c. a le. lower, while oats were steady. Pork was heavy and lower. Beef was steady, while lard was dull, but steady. Freights were scarcely so firm. Whiskey firmer. MISCELLANEOUS. Our correspondence from Mexico is dated at Mexico city to September 1, and Vera Craz to September 6. Maximilian had received a despatch from some person unknown saying that all was useless, On the strength of this rumors are prevalent that Max isa prisoner to Bazaine, that he wishes to go to Europe and the Marshal will not tet Kim, and others equally wild, There is no doubt that there is a difference between him and the French. Citizens living near Vera Cruz are removing inside the city walls for protection, and fortifications are being Constructed. It is reported in the capital that Bazaine and Douay are to leave on the next packet, Madame Escandon had presented a long memorial asking the release of her husband, who is charged with heavy peculations on the imperial government. Our dates from Panama and the South American Btates are to the 12th inst, Several of the Colombian State authorities had threatened to resist the enforce- ment of Mosquera’s orders, and domestic trouble was anticipated. Favorable concessions had been granted by the Colombian government to the projected railway across the isthmus. Queen Emma arrived at Panama on the 9th, and sailed for the Sandwich Islands the same evening. The Panama Legislature convened on the 1st inst., and inangurated Olarte as Governor of New Gra- nada, The two vessels purchased by Vicuna MacKenna in this country for Chile were not considered adaptable to war purposes. Montero, the deposed admiral of ‘the Peruvian navy, was still in custody, Salcedo, the Chilean commander, having charge of the navies of both Powers, and Tucker, the ex-rebel, who was appointed to supersede Montero, having a subordi- nate command under him. The terms of the new treaty between Chile and Bolivia are published in our corres- pondence. Gottachalk gave a grand concert at Santiago on the night of August 12, and the next day he was pre- sented by a decroe of the Council with a gold medal. A ball was given on the 9th ult, by General Kilpatrick at the American Legation. Our Havana correspondence is dated September 15. Tho quarantine on vessels coming from the United States still continues in force to the great detriment of trade, but would probably be soon removed. Tho house of Don Mignel Bon in San Jago de Cuba had failed, with liabilities at $247,000 and assets at only $77,000. Anice making concern was about being established. There was more firmnoss in tho sugar markets. Elections for Presidont were to commencs in Nicaragua in November, No government has yet beon installed in St. Domingo, and that little republic is given up to the disorders at- tondant on a state of anarchy. Hayti is in the same con- dition, and Prosident Goffrard is (hroniencd With anothor revolution. Outlaws overrun the country, and horrible crimes are committed with impunity. ‘A meoting of Fonians was held in Troy last night, and was addressed by General Gleeson, of the Stephens wing. Considerable excitemont prevails among the circles in this city, relative to the expected invasion of Canada. It is supposed, considering the reinforcements arriving in the provinces, that the movement would prove a dis- astrous failure. A picnic will be given at Jones’ Wood on Monday next under the auspices of Stephens’ friends. We publish this morning an opinion from the Attorney Goneral of the United States in regard to the power of the President where appointments to office have been’ made in the recess prior to the last seasion of the Sonate, and there was a failure during the session to make a per- manent appointment, either by the refusal of the Senate to confirm the nominee, « fllUFe to met on the nomt- nation or other cause, to make another temporary ap- pointment in the present recess. In his discussion of the subject the Attorney General takes up the general question whether the President can fill up a vacaucy ia the recess which existed in the prior session. After a review of the precedents established since the founda- tion of the government, and an examination of the con- stitution and existing laws on the subject, he arrives at the affirmative of the proposition, and consequently of the original question submitted to him. H. G, Norton, one of the travelling Miscegens, who tolegraphed to the Cleveland Convention that he would expose the workings behind the scenes of his late friends, bas wholly deserted them and made a confes- sion. He says the whole intention of the party isto make a living by exhibiting themselves as martyrs to Southern ferocity, and when this resource fails and they are in danger of coming under the vagrancy law, they propose to excite a megro insurrection or another war. He says that Randolpb, the negro, eats, drinks and sleeps with Jack Hamilton. The heavy rains in the West have been the occasion of considerable damage at Cincinnati and Indianapolis. Bridges on several of the railroads were swept away. The damage in Indianapolis is now estimated at $300,000 and three more persons are reported drowned. Aman named David Higgins, employed on the Morris and Essex Railroad, was knocked down and run over by a train, at Orange, on Tuesday evening. The mas, who is said to belong to New York, died almost instantly. ‘The switchmen on the Erie railroad employed in the neighborhood of the Jersey City depot struck for higher wages on Monday and, their demand boing refused, left off work and substitutes were provided. Tho New Jorsoy Legislature, in joint session yesterday, confirmed the election of A. G. Cattell to be United ‘States Senator, the democratic members not voting. A large meoting was held in Toledo, Ohio, last night, to ratify the proceedings of the Philadelphia Convention of August 14. General Mulien and General Steedman were the principal speakers. A radical meeting was held at Paterson, New Jersey, last evening, which was addressed by John Minor Botts, in which he attacked the policy of tho President, favor- ing his impeachment, and advocated the adoption of the constitutional amendment. He thought that each State should settle the question of negro suffrage for itself, A Convention of Soldiers and Sailors of the State of Now York was in session at Syracuse yesterday. Reso- lutions were adopted declaring the power of reconstruc- tion to be vested in Congress, and the pardons extended to rebels to have no effect in releasing them from liabill- ty to trial for their treason, and approving of the repub- lican candidates for State officers. Delegates were ap- pointed to the Pittsburg Convention which meets on the ‘25th, General Barlow and Colonel McKean being chosen delegates at large. The Convention then adjourned until this morning. The Producers’ Bank, in Chicago, suspended yester- day. General Baird’s report of the New Orleans riot is creat. ing much excitement among the people in that city. The loss by the burning of Brenham, Texas, by United States soldiers recently, is estimated at $153,700. The surgeon in attendance on Secretary Seward re. ports that he is much improved, and will, no doubt, soon recover his health, A cane of cholera resulted fatally in Hudson City on Tuesday. Forty-three deaths occurred in Nashville yes. terday from the same disease, and twenty-five in Savan- nah during the past week. Gayerat Grant on Tae ConsriToTionaL Amanpuant.—For some time past the papers have been pretending to give General Grant's opinions about politics and the President and this thing and that thing; but all who know the Goneral are aware that he never publicly ex- presses his views upon these matters. He has his private notions about politics and politi- cians, and he keeps them to himself. We believe, however, that he has no sach hesitancy im en- dorsing the constitutional amendment now be- fore the States and in advising the South to accept it and settle the whole business. Gen- eral Grant regards thie subject as of national importance and far beyond all considerations of partisanship, and consequently his hopes and wishes in regard to it are expressed with- oat hia nanal wise reserve. ‘The Constitutional Amendmeat—Hon. James Brooke and Hon. Thaddeus Stevens on the Same Platform. The Hon. James Brooks, through the columns of an obscure journal made up of second hand materials—a sort of shoddy newspaper—has come out with a flippant little stump speech against the constitutional amendment now be- fore the States for their ratification. He docs not like it. Nelther does the Hon. Thaddeus Stevens, nor General B, F. Butler, nor Wendell Phillips, nor any of the tribe of radical lead- ers. Nor is it the first time or the second in which Mr. Brooks and Mr. Stevens have been found pulling together. On the District of Co- lumbia Negro Suffrage bill in the House of Representatives, early in the last session, when the conservative republicans, with the help of the democrats, could have defeated Stevens on the test question, Stevens carried his point with the ald of the democratic vete, including the vote of Mr. Brooks. Again, to- wards the close of the session, when this con- stitutional amendment as first reported was be- fore the House, the democrats came to the rescue of Stevens and enabled him to carry his point against the moderate republicans. The test question was upon the third section of the amendment as originally reported, dis- franchising till the 4th of July, 1867, every man guilty of voluntarily giving aid and com- fort to the rebellion. This was the ultimatum of Stevens. The most ferocious of all his vio- lent speeches was his terrible closing speech against any surrender of this condition. It was to him the pith and substance of the amendment, and this plan of Congress, he pro- tested, would be a surrender to the rebels if shorn of this sweeping disfranchisement. A republican member desired to make a motion to strike out this third section ; but Stevens in- terposed the previous question, which, if adopted, cuts off all motions to amend and brings the House at once to the main quesifon. With the aid of the democrats the conservative republicans could have voted down the pre- vious question; but a sufficient number of the democrats preferred to support the motion of Stevens, and thus they carried his plan through the House. We cannot find the name of Mr. Brooks in these proceedings, but the votes of his fellow democrats who voted for the pre- vious question and his dodging are enough to fix his position. This sweeping disfranchise- ment of the Stevens plan was stricken out in the Senate, where the amendment was put into its present shape; but the country owes nothing to Mr. Brooks for the modification. The amendment as it now stands is not his plan, nor is it the plan of Mr. Stevens. Both these men, we take it, dislike this amendment because it does not suit the factious purposes of either to bring this business to a speedy and decisive settlement, Against the warnings of Stevens and the flip- pant objections of Brooks we urge upon the politicians and white people of the Southern States the adoption of this constitutional amond- ment. The public mind of the North is not in the mood for a repetition of the supercilious, imperious and insolent demands of such South- ern fire-eaters and revolutionists as defeated the great object of the Border State Peace Con- vontion of 1861. We have had enough of the folly of domineering Southern fire-caters and enough of the fanaticism of Northern radicals, and we want peace, and we can get it inthe re- storation of the Union on the basis of this peace ultimatum of the republican conservatives of Congress. We feel entirely justified in admon- ishing the Southern States that delay is danger- ous to them ; that if they reject these condi- tions of Congress they will be far more likely to get something much worse instead of any- thing better; that a State government, accord- ing to the Supreme Conrt, if recognized by Congress, is the State ; that if not recognized by Congress, there is no appeal but to the next Congress, and that in such an appeal there is no living chance of anything better than this amendment for the excluded States. It is the victorious party in a war that dio- tates the treaty of peace ; and as the terms of restoration and peace offered to the South by Congress propose nothing of confiscation, no enforcement of negro suffrage, no vengeance, no exclusions from federal offices that cannot be remedied, no disfranchisements, but only those securities deemed necessary for the safety of the national treasury, the liberty of the blacks and the future peace of the Union, we would appeal to the excluded Southern States to come into the general government as fast as possible on these generous terms offered through Congress by the victorious North. We urge this course because it is abundantly mani- fest that nothing less will satisfy the great dominant Union war party and Congressional peace party of the North. An Important Movement Among the Liberals of Engl id. A large and very inftuentlal number of magis- trates, clergymen, municipal officers in Ireland, as well as members of Parliament, have in- vited the distinguished English liberal, John Bright, to attend a complimentary banquet to be given in Dublin. In his letter accepting the invitation Mr. Bright says he does so be- cause his friends in Ireland are of opinion that “something may be done to make a more per- fect union between the liberals of Ireland and the liberal party in England,” with a view to wiser legislation for both countries, This is a very important and comprehensive movement, and will no doubt create consider- able sensation among certain classes in Eng- land. By the union of the English and Irish liberals upon the sound basis and enlightened principles advocated by Mr. Bright additional strength will be given to the reform agitation and a fresh impulse imparted to the spirit of progress now animating the masses of Europe. Mr. Bright has long been a terror to the aris- tocracy of Great Britain. His vigorous intel- lect and broad, intelligent and independent political views have made him the master- mind of the great liberal movement in Eng- land. Possessing characteristics equally solid, expansive and comprehensive, he infuses into the minds of his friends the liveliest enthusiasm for the liberal cause and at the same time chal- lenges the admiration of his opponents. In all that relates to commerce, to the manufscturing interests or to the political economy of his country, Mr. Bright stands in a most conspica- ous light. And now, after winning an envia- ble distinction on English soil as the great liberal leader and practical states- man, be goes to Ireland to give a sensible direction to the liberal cause there. This is what Ireland has long needed. Howevor einoore the friends of [risk liberty NEW YORK HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1866.—TRIPLE SHEET. may have been and are now, it cannot be denied that many of their plans for securing reform and liberation have been wild, imprac- ticable and dangerous. Plausible schemes have lacked cohesion, organization and proper management, Mr. Bright will no doubt put the liberals in Ireland in such a state of organization as to do away with the Fenian associations altogether and at the same time accomplish many of the reforms which the Fenians are en- deavoring unsuccessfully to attain. There will be no longer any necessity for head centres, forced loans, willing contributions, midnight drills or Canadian raids. With a man so pure and high minded as John Bright as the leader of the English and Irish liberals the Fenian organization will become useless. The move- ment of Mr. Bright will entirely absorb it. These united liberals will constitute a formida- ble barrier to the encroachments of the Eng- lish crown and pave the way for a general emancipation of the masses from the thraldom of the English aristocracy. But we do not think this democratic movement of Mr. Bright will be confined to the British kingdom alone. It may be destined to spread through France, Germany and Italy, and involve entire Europe in its effects, The people of France are any- thing but quiescent, notwithstanding the extra- ordinary efforts of the Emperor to pacify, employ and amuse them. And if Mr. Bright should succeed in firing up the Irish heart to the work of uniting upon some reasonable, tangible and attainable method of reform which the Irish nation so sadly needs, he may next undertake the labor of a liberal mission- ary among Napoleon’s ouvriers, and extend his journey through Germany and Italy with benefit to the progressive and restless spirits in those countries. At all events this Dublin banquet, tendered by so influential and power- ful a class of persons to the sagacious English liberal leader, will be hailed as an omen that the spirit of the European democracy and re- sistance to the encroachments of European aristocracy are not flagging, but are on a wider, more enlightened and more comprehensive career than ever. Complication of Affairs in Europe. Although the news by mail from Europe which we published yesterday has been an- ticipated to some extent by the cable tele- grams, there is much that is strikingly interest- ing not noticed before. We may notice espe- cially the address of the Duke de Persigny at Montbrison at the inauguration of the Diana Hall at that place. The occasion did not seem to warrant any such elaborate and profound views of governments and governmental policy as he uttered. Indeed they were, to use a common expreasion, farfetched. But the Duke do Persigny followed the example of his mas- ter, the Emperor Napoleon, and, we may say, the example of many public men of other countries at the present day, in taking advan- tage of any public opportunity, however in- significant, to make a sort of oracular declara- tion on public affairs, The Duke was inspired probably by hints from Napoleon. The substance of this truly Napoleonic ad- dress is a plea for absolutism. In true French and Napoleon theoretic style he speaks of the progress of ideas, of the elevation of the masses, of the “development of practical lib- erty,” of “the reign of a mighty democracy just beginning,” of the “ banquet of civiliza- tion” when the “popular masses so long disin- herited” demand their share in government. He says, in enthusiastic style, that the people are crying out “in their mighty aspirations to the sovereign of their choice (Napoleon), ‘ King of the people, onward !’” This sort of hifalutin talk may suit the excitable and mercurial Frenchmen, but in our practical common sense way of viewing things we naturally ask, What does it all amount to? What is there in it? Words, words, mere theories; and nothing but words and theories. That is all there is in it. In other parts of the address we discover what the Duke is aiming at. “True liberty,” he says, “cannot exist without authority”—that 1s, imperial or kingly suthority—“that the first duty of a prince is to secure public order,” and that this is to be maintained “by the sword which God or the nation gives him as his own,” and “that to desire to tear it from his hands in the name of liberty is a sure sigan that the liberty thus invoked is but a lie.” In illustration of this doctrine he mentions the case of the King of Prussia following his own will rather than that of the legislature or people. “The deputies of Prussia,” he said, “who in their inexperience believed that they were augmenting their new liberty by dimin- ishing the privilege of the crown, were certainly animated by honest intentions. But what would have occurred but for the re- solution of the King? After having disarmed the Prince they would themselves have been exposed, without defence, to those violent spirits who are always ready to falsify the con ditions of liberty and to exaggerate ils conse- quences.” Without going into the question of how far Prussia has or has not been benefited in the late extraordinary crisis she has passed through by the King’s assumption of authority, we must say that we have rarely seen so thorough and such an ingenious plea for ab- solutiem as this of the Duke de Persigny. Now, what does all this French theory end these idées Napoléennes amount to? It is neither more nor less than an effort to recon- cile two principles of government that are utterly irreconcilable—-the imperial and the democratic. Great stress is laid upon the idea of universal suffrage, of giving the whole mass ot the people what is called a voice in the gov- ernment. But we have seen in France how universal suffrage may exist without liberty and under the most despotic government. In fact, under such a government as that of Napo- leon this pretended universal suffrage is a farce. Persigny, Napoleon and all the rest of the men at the bead of affairs in France are mere actors, declaiming pretty theories to a people who are too apt to swallow them as established principles. But taking in view the principles at work throughout Europe, as well as in France, we think we see a state of things in the future that will upset all these fine theories, All the lives of Cesar that Napolean or his friends may write, and all the ingenious speeches of such men as the Dake de Persigny canaot arrest the progress of common sense ideas on the subject of government. The Emperor, or possibly his successor, may for a short time obscure the truth; but in the end the principles of trae de- mocracy, of the republican democracy of America, mast prevail. These principles, in teality, are now operating in Burope in crea- ting aa underswell of conalar sentiment thet the royalist theorists will not long be able to resist. The war may be closed for a time, the war of dynasties or nationalities may have ceased for the present, but another and greater war is coming—a war of principles—a war for true liberty. This fact is not lost sight of by the press of Europe, for we see some of the journals there are anxiously speculating on the future influence of the United States in the world. They begin to advise a combination of the European monarchical Powers to resist this inevitable influence. On the whole, we con- clude that while there may be a lullin the war fever of the Old World, and an anxious effort made to prevent a renewal of the war, the ideas of true democratic liberty which are fermenting must break out again in a new form before long. Ban Burier anp Wenpait Paurs ror Con- GrEss.—A country paper has nominated Ben Butler for the Presidency, probably by way of ajoke; but both Butler and Wendell Phillips have been seriously nominated for Congress by the radicals of Massachusetts. Butler may get into Congress, but he will never get the Presi- dency while his name is Bethel Fisher. As for Wendell Phillips, he ought to go to Congress, for he is a good orator and would soon find his level there. He has been rampaging about the country alone altogether too long, and we want to locate him somewhere. If he will come out in favor of the constitutional amendment we will present his claims, such as they are, to the people. HEAVY STORMS IN THE WEST. The Freshet in Indianapolis. $ Ivpiaxarous, Ind., Sept, 19, 1866, The damage of the great flood of yesterday 1s heavier than at first supposed. It will not fall much short of $300,000. Railroad communication is almost entirely broken. The bridge over Pleasant Run, about a mile from this city, on the Jeffersonville railroad, has been washed away. A mau named Wishmire, who was on the bridge at the time, was drowned. Henry @, Collis, and a man named Jason, were drowned in the city. Tho Flood in Cincinnati and Vicinity—Great Destruction of Property—Loss of Life, &c. Cincinnati, Sept, 19, 1866. It bas rained incessantly since six o'clock last evening. Considerable damage has been done to property in Cen- tral and Southern Ohio. The bridges on the Indianapolis and Cincinnati, tho Chicago, Air Line, and tho Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton road, have beon washed away. The Little Miami, and Obio and Mississippi, and Ma- rietta and Cincinnati roads have sustained no damage, and trains are running regularly. Cixawati, Sept. 19—Evening. The great storm continues, and roports from the rail- roads and the crops are disheartening. There is no railroad communication from this city to Dayton, In- dianapotis or Chicago, all the roads having bridges gone. The Indianapolis road oat the worst damaged, and cannot PePeRsite Hh Davros RNR the Hood one Day the flood there aa the most remarkable known for the season. That city is conamnelaly isolated by the freabet, no trains being able to get ia oF out in any direction. The track of the Dayton and Michigan road is swept away in several yes. A bridge on the Dayton and Western road, ned lew Paris, is gone; also five Lanai on the Indiana Cen. tral, between lambus and Pi iqua. The Atlantic and Great Western road has several ex- tensive slides, and the Dayton and Sandusky is sub- merged in ey ee for hundreds of The town of crieppecriir ia opposite feet under water this morni mo The streams between Lewisburg and Urbana are higher than ever known before. The corn crop in the bottoms has suffered bee ‘Thousands of acres are six or it feet under water. Whitewater and Miam! rivers have been higher to-day aa ee known. train from Indianapolis ‘was expected here to-night, having made several traus- ne Dut a rea slide has occurred on this end, near the Deaeaien ‘con Columbus to-night say the Scioto is pr ceaverengge a having risen twelve feet since even! whole vailey opposite Columbus ia rardowentt and the National road is washed away in places. The river at five P. M. stood four inches higher eae bd walle pal of 1847. Many families ve been from their homes, No trains are run- on the Columbus and Todians is road, across the Miami river at Piqua has been pon ahs ead three men, and Killing a fourth by ima. Trains on the Pittsburg, Columbus and Cincinnati ake avialnad ity damage to the trestle work at 5 ‘nec drowned yesterday by the freshet at The ‘Gnmuage s ‘to property can be estimated by millions. yton, was ten The Freeshket in Indiana. Inptuasarous, Sept. 19, 1865. The damage done by the freshet in this city will ‘amount to three or four hundred thousand dollars. The damage to the railroads is very great. Communication on the Columbus and Indianapolis and the Cincinnati and Indianapolis roads is still suspended. The first train since the storm on the Louisville road went out to-night. Heavy Rain at Louisville. Sept. 19, 1868, We were visited last night with the heaviest rain storm that we have bad for many years. POPULAR IDEAS. Iadian Corn. A correspondent complains that the great American staple, Indian corn, has nover beon appreciated in foreign countries, and says that even during the famine in Ireland it was with the greatest difficulty the poor starving people of that country could be induced to eat it, Our correspondent suggests that we should endeavor to make this important article more generally known, and hints at propriety of sending it next year'to the Paris exhibition, made into all the styles of American food, such as bread, griddle cakes, boiled and fried hominy, puddings, &c. If the article cannot be intro. duced into the exhibition in its cooked state, he pro- poses that the restaurants in the neighborhood be supplied with it so that people could get it to eat. Model Tenement Houses. “A friend of the poor’’ calls the attention of wealthy and philanthropic citizens to the feasibility of forming a company for the purpose of building model lodging houses for the poor, and thinks that the scheme would pay a legal per centage. The benefits that would accrae from such an undertaking, we are told, would be various and manifold as a protection against epidemics, the im provement socially and morally of this class of peopie, ‘and the fostering of labor, &c. Ship Railway Across Darien. “A Subscriber’’ tells us that a plaa has been projected fora ship railway across the Isthmus of Darien, which is at once the most stupendous and yet feasible under- taking that the genius of man ever conceived. We are not told what the plan is, however, but simply that it can be constructed in one-fourth of the time and at a much lower cost than the canal proposed some years ago. Treatment of Soldiers in the Regular Army. A soldier writing from Fort Larned, Kansas, complains of the shamefal manner in which the privates in the ranks of the regular army are treated by their officers, and says that the men are mot treated as kindly as slaves were before the war. Besides this, they are poorly fed and worked very bard, and many spend all their pay to get enough to eat. As a natural consequence of such treatment he says the men are growing tired of the sor- vice, and many good soldiers avow their intention of leaving if affairs are not more properly managed. Dangerous Thoroughfare. “Citizen” cails the attention of the authorities to the great danger attending pedestrians along the sidewalks in front of the new buildings now being erected in Broadway. Persons riding in omnibuses ron an equal tisk from the precarious condition of the piles of bricks, and it frequently bappens that the stages come in con tact with these mounds and tumble them about those in the immediate vicinity in a very dangerous manner. WEW YORK CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS. biicun Congrensional somal Courention "for th for ry meal digeres. beta, e Corn eeerbae, vena enone oom hi Union Convention tion of the Sena toe it district of Now York to-day nomiasted W a ot oy county. for represpniquive ia the NEWS FROM NEW ORLEANS. SPEGIAL TELEGRAM THE WEW YORK HERALD. General Baird’s Report on the Late Ries Creating Much Excitement—Feeling of the People of the South—The Brenham Riot, &c. New Oaizans, Sept. 19, 1866. General Baird’s report bas created much excitement here. The Times clearly exposes several of Baird’s misstatements. The Mayor’s secretary ia out a letter detailing the Mayor’s conversation with General Baird, and showing that the Chief Magistrate was earn\ est in his desire to avoid riot and bloodshed. T have recently travelled over Virginia, Tennessee, Ala¢ bama, Mississippi and Louisiana, and pia teenie pe served peace and quiet. Wherever I have officers and Northern abolitionists are Lebroe teously, and in all those States they are as fully protected as if they were in Massachusetts, I failed to find any bitterness towards the goverument he Northern people. Ex-Confederate soldiers are unit for restoration and friendly mtercourse with as} North. denunciation of = is} Bove infant , the officer there, and four aol with burning, refuse to gurrender to the pro. The Galveston Civilian of the 15th, just recei hae! it is safd that a committee of the to be sent to investigate the circumstances te the burning of Brenham by the United States soldiers. A military committee is already engaged in « similar in- vestigation. In the meantime a gentleman from Bren+ ham informs the ih that the citizens genorally are armed and keep out a guard of fifty mon, who prevent the entrance into the town of any of the soldiery, while fonted up and ebgaged in digging rife pita. w en; in digging rifle The ions resulting from the Sntegthtion is estimated: at $153,700, div: among some thirty citizens. The stavement tel raphed to the Tribune of the mur- dor of six negro soldiers at Jefferson, Texas, is denied by General Sheridan, It 1s a radical falschood, telegraphed for effect upon Northern elections, CITY INTELLIGENCE. A New City Ratroap.—A charter was granted last winter to the Dry Dock and East Broadway line, and signed by Governor Fenton in May, for the laying of another cross-town railroad. It runs from Grand street ferry to Varick street, down Varick street to Canal street, along Canal street to Desbrosses street and thence, to North river. Little more than half the track has beem laid and the work is being pushed forward as rapidly aa possible, In the course of a week cars will run ta Broadway, and about the first of next month througt the entire line. There is some delay caused by there being alack of cars. Tho fare will be 6c. This coms pany now run three different lines, viz. :—The Dry and East Broadway, the Avenue B and Thirty-1 fourth and Grand street and Cortlandt street lines, this new one making the fourth. The company have no conned tion whatever with the Belt line. New York Asseuucy Rooms.—Gencral Forrero is fitting up a large building on Broadway, betweon Twenty-cightla and Twenty-ninth streets, to be used for valls, concerta, fairs and lectures. Since the destruction of the City: Assembly Rooms in the earl, part of of last spring there has been no establishment of the kind in the city. The ball or lecture room will be on the second floor. Tt wilk See date dttning Fy Pea kaltaa be on the same floor. By thi Tooms are arrangement the inconvenience of having to travel several blocks in search of a supper will be avoided. It is ox] tat tho establishment will be thrown open to the public about the middle of next month, and will, no doubt, be very extensively patronized during the coming season. s Foros Sraset Usion Day Paarer Meetixo.—After nine consecutive years of daily moetiugs the above ingti-) tution still continues, without the least abatemoat of f{uterest to the religious world, and will hold its ninth, anniversary on Monday, the 24th instant, at twolve o'clock, at the North Dutch church, corner of Ful and William streets, in which numerous clergymen this city and from other cities aud States will take part. A Sugorsrioy To Tux Srreer Raiuway Comraxina.— Fires are every day occurring which necessitate the lay- fag of hose in the public thoroughfares. By thie means where the hose runs across the tracks of our great inconvenienre among It ta suggested that o om eeeeesin ‘Afth or ath read portable placed, vi a ‘upon so carved that it may be laid upon the track so that it will protect the hose and at the same time afford a pass anno cara, By this means, at the outlay of @ amali sum of money, all that trouble which arisey uently when street cars are thus delayed aight be obviated, at a saving of much time, and consequeatiy ot money. ‘Loxasnonsuen’s Boomry.—A meeting of the 'Long- sbore and Lumbermen's Protective Association was hal last evening at No. 193 Bowery. The business of the’ meeting was ohiefly the initiation of new members aud the collection of fines and dues. Desooverr or Human Boxes.—As some workmen were receatly engaged in removing rubbish and digging foun- dations for the erection of a wali in the rear of No. 68 Reade street thoy unearthed a skull ~ some Ln Argenaed a ful wa human being. a, the site of some Pia dege @ discovery led to no small amount of excite- meat and speculation. Wraprawa of 4 Fearveoat ror Reraiuna—The steamer Geueral Sedgwick has been withdrawn from the Peokaktll route for the present, in order to increase her pore waren add to the comfort of the traveling pudlic. THE FENIANS. Kathusiastic Meeting in Trey—Speech of tiene. ral Gleeson—He Exhorts the Collection of Arms and Ammunition, co that the War may Commence this Year, &c, ‘Troy, N. ¥., Sept. 19, 1866. There was a large and enthusiastic gathering of ¥-4!aaa at Harmony Hall in this city to-night, to mt Gleeson and staff, who were present bv -pecial iavitation from the leading members of the o«anization here and in the immediate vicinity. ‘The hail waa elegantly deco rated with festoons of flow@rs and evergreens, tastefully interspersed with mores. On the way from the botel to the hall lond cheers were given for James Stephens and General Gleeson. The arrival of the Darty was the signal forthe most vocifer- ous cheering, clapping of bands and stamping 9 < foot, Genersi Gleeson afted entering and @ at considerable le: on othe F Condition of the Fenian Brotherh von the pr said it was absolutely impossible that ‘- ation been im Pome Ad be ‘amyse character, which Sei eee ee tee Pecctuse it had recently. 61 from reverses, the contrary, it had received new vitality, and would flourists until the independence of Ireland was gained on Irish soil. The General concluded by calling upon all present to exercise their best exertions in collecting arms an@ ammunition to ome in the hands of the Army of the L. R, so that nothi ode interfere to prevent the war from ‘commencing th Several members ot "the Roberts party were present poh to take a interest in the remarks G Gleeson. It was hinted that s certain had intimated his tnteotion of forsaking Roberts an@ going over to About the Invasion of Canada Value of Amorts can ip Abread—The Picnic Next Monday, &e. At present there is considerabie excitement among the Fenian circles of thie city in relation to the next move- ment on Canada. Recent information from over the border leads to the supposition that it will result in a dis- astrous failure. Numerous suspected Fenians have ar- rived here who state that if Canada ie again invaded, and the movement should promise to be successful the Canadians 14 immediately se seek to be annered the United States. In that conti ogoacy ihe vaders would find themselves in a ma, sat te obliged to desist from all warlike bee’ "aes the whole power of the United nach would Pe ine the fate of the movement, even first successfal. probabilityjis however "ae soul Ina few weeks tee 0 fn the prea" thare wll twenty thousand regular troope to these there is a large force the government officials are necessity of maintaining « tained the frontier, until the inctemencies of a Cans in winter precinde possibility of an invasion. Such are views tained by the most Lae wed of the Fenians who bave. recently arrived from Canada. AMRRIC AN During the next fe made to secured = in the or unwilling to prot minds of and al! imate minds of the people, legit! used for the purpose of having radical io this respect. a pegs Aa ant thas will gS ees Urnach ot tbe, ot Srenatention. attandance will be unusually | Foniana inoliding the 0 8 wldrage Lae Manin 8+ adopted citizens when the United ben will be impressed on tect tts means are to be. ‘| be Ss